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Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University; David L. Silverstein, University of Kentucky; John L. Falconer, University of Colorado, Boulder; Ronald L. Miller, Colorado School of Mines

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conceptual instruction and assessment so that many morechemical engineering faculty will incorporate concept-based learning into their classes.The specific objectives of this project are to:1. Develop the AIChE Concept Warehouse, a flexible database-driven website for conceptual questions in the core chemical engineering sciences. Features of the AIChE Concept Warehouse include: a. Making concept questions available in different formats to facilitate widespread use. b. Allowing integration of questions within a course and from different courses so students can link concepts to one another and form a more cohesive cognitive structure. c. Populating the site with conceptual questions that are submitted and reviewed by faculty, and

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Patrick A. Tebbe, Minnesota State University, Mankato

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-worldenvironment, as well as additional design problems based on design methods and actual solutionsat real facilities. Accompanying supplementary and background information promotes increasedinquiry-based or student-centered learning, better addresses students’ real world expectations,and leads to an increase in overall student engagement. A Phase 1 grant allowed for thedevelopment and repeated formative assessment of a single scenario, leading to the current Phase2 grant.To test the Scenario concept, material was originally generated around the engineering facilitiesof Minnesota State University Mankato (MSU), located in southern Minnesota. Thissupplemental material was designed for dissemination in an electronic format and for use withstandard

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Emmanuelle Reynaud, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; John J. Duffy, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Linda Barrington, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Julianne Lee Rhoads; David O. Kazmer, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Bowa George Tucker, University of Massachusetts, Lowell

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engineeringfaculty population, a level of response consistent with surveys from prior years. The survey isgiven in Appendix A.Table 1 summarizes the overall answers of the engineering faculty respondents regarding theirattitudes toward S-L. On average, respondents, whether they have practiced S-L or not, agreethat it can be a benefit to their academic practice and can enhance the student experiencethroughout their studies. Respondents are neutral on the ability of S-L to attract and retainminority students in engineering fields, however. They also are neutral regarding whether S-Ldemands additional student time and effort. One of the goals of the SLICE project lies in offeringan S-L experience to every student each semester of their curriculum; respondents

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Rebecca K. Toghiani, Mississippi State University; Adrienne Robyn Minerick, Michigan Technological University; Keisha B. Walters, Mississippi State University; Priscilla J. Hill, Mississippi State University; Carlen Henington, Mississippi State University

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/operations to achieve enhancements in energy efficiency, improved safety,utilization of resources and reduction of capital costs, waste generation, and energy consumption.Process intensification involves thinking about chemical processing in new ways such that (1)recognition of inherent limitations imposed by using sequential unit operations to accomplishchemical and/or physical transformations is achieved; and (2) methods of concurrentlyperforming more than one unit operation are considered. This requires undergraduates to thinkin different ways about the processes they have learned about in their traditional unit operationscourses. Process intensification is essential to industrial competitiveness as it can enhancesafety, increase operating

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Lin Li, Prairie View A&M University; Yongpeng Zhang, Prairie View A&M University; Lei Huang, Prairie View A&M University

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conduction. Based on LabVIEWremote engine, their courseware uses an in-house developed scheduler web server (SWS) tobridge physical laboratory experiments with the Internet end users. The courseware is integratedwith account management and scheduling functions through which users can reserve labequipment and time slots. After that, a remote experiment doer can manipulate lab instrumentsand focus on class contents, with guaranteed time and resources. This system is independent oflab equipment and experimental technology.Practical lab deployment of the courseware showed that it was efficient in improving theresource utilization4, 7, 8. Meanwhile, we also noticed some potential issues. As shown in Figure 1,in this remote engineering laboratory

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Stephanie Elizabeth August, Loyola Marymount University

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software engineering.OverviewThe Teaching Artificial Intelligence as a Laboratory Science †1 (TAILS) project is designed todevelop a new paradigm for teaching introductory artificial intelligence (AI) concepts byimplementing an experiment-based approach modeled after the lab sciences. It explores whetherstructured labs with exercises that are completed in teams before students leave the classroomcan build a sense of accomplishment, confidence, community, and collaboration among students,characteristics which have been shown to be critical to retain women and non-traditionalcomputer science students in the field.TAILS presents to students an array of fundamental AI algorithms as a set of hands-on activitiesmade available through a database of lab

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Jason Yao, East Carolina University; Loren Limberis, East Carolina University; Steve Warren, Kansas State University

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individual paces. Meanwhile, results from these generalengineering courses remind that one must be cautious when considering employing to studentswho do not have sufficient background in electric circuits. A. IntroductionAs part of a two year CCLI (TUES) project, this paper describes the continuing work of using aPortable Electronic Experiment Kit (PEEK, see references [1-4]) in two courses (ENGR 3014—CircuitAnalysis and ENGR 3050—Instrumentation and Controls) in a General Engineering program. In theproject, each student was given a set of PEEK, with which they were asked to prepare laboratoryassignments before lab times and complete unfinished hands-on work afterwards. The first year’sexperience has been reported in [1, 5], where the toolset was

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Noe Vargas Hernandez, University of Texas, El Paso; Linda C. Schmidt, University of Maryland, College Park; Gül E. Okudan Kremer, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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control groups; the experimentswere conducted simultaneously at three institutions: University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP),Penn State, and University of Maryland. Besides contrasting results at different institutions, thevariety of experiments allows us to contrast participants at the graduate and the undergraduatelevel (all of them engineering students), working a design problem. In order to have significantresults, we followed a rigorous experimental procedure for which a set of guidelines wereproduced. Such experimental guidelines address (1) Design of Experiment, (2) Execution of theExperiment, and (3) Assessment of Results. With respect to assessment, we used traditionaloutcome-based metrics (quantity, novelty and variety) and adapted and

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Larry D. Peel P.E., Texas A&M University, Kingsville; Mohamed Abdelrahman, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; Jared Scott Cavazos

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student. The research focused onfabricating and testing part of a simple “bionic” or human-like arm similar to those in Figure 1. The objectives of the summer research were to: 1) Fabricate an actuator that could produce high forces while utilizing the new flexible tendons, 2) Improve the range of motion (rotation) for the third generation bionic arm, and 3) Have a more human like muscle placement. Previously, students and faculty1 at TAMUK fabricated two simple bionic arms that used Page 25.625.2Rubber Muscle Actuators (RMAs), as shown in Figure 1. KA1, the left-hand arm was completedin only 2 weeks, and proved quite

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David L. Soldan, Kansas State University; Noel N. Schulz, Kansas State University; Don Gruenbacher, Kansas State University; Rekha Natarajan, Kansas State University; Blythe Marlow Vogt, Kansas State University

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Nasser Alaraje, Michigan Technological University; Aleksandr Sergeyev, Michigan Technological University; Fred Scheu, College of Lake County

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professional individuals and college faculty seeking knowledge and expertisein programmable logic design. Faculty members having the opportunity to attend theseworkshops gain the knowledge and expertise to teach both VHDL digital Design andProgrammable Logic (FPGA) design courses. The exposure to industry-taught courses will helpthe faculty members to impact the learning experience of his/her undergraduate students byproviding them with skills that are highly marketable and appreciated by industry. II. Curriculum Development at Michigan Tech UniversityFigure 1 shows the current and proposed digital design logic sequence which incorporates theaddition of two new courses that will be added to the current course (Digital Electronics). TheEET program

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Jane Hunter, University of Arizona; James C. Baygents, University of Arizona

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problem.• The project does not adequately relate to the societal, global, environmental and economic context of the problem.• While the population of Arizona is diverse, female and ethnic minority students are underrepresented in the College of Engineering.• Due to financial constraints, the class sizes of the sections in the first year foundation course are high.• In some cases, the course lacks appeal to a diverse audience.• First-year students have limited opportunity to interact with faculty who do not participate directly in the foundation course.Opportunities• The NAE Grand Challenges for Engineering (1) provide clear direction regarding the problems that future engineers will be asked to solve.• This generation of students, who are

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Lawrence E. Whitman, Wichita State University; Karen V. Reynolds, Wichita State University

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Engineering. The graduation rate of engineeringstudents is currently 25 percent (graduating with an engineering degree, 47% actually earn anydegree at WSU), and with the existing “merit-based only” scholarship program, the graduationrate increases to almost 86% percent (see Table 1 for details). Table 1. Graduation Rate for 2001-2002 WSU Engineering Students Category Freshmen enrollment graduated Current scholarship program 14 (101 applied) 85.7% All WSU Engineering 130 47%/25%Building upon the existing successful program, GEEKS added a new need-based scholarshipprogram that aims to increase the number of students

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Javier Angel Kypuros, University of Texas, Pan American; Martin William Knecht, South Texas College; Constantine Tarawneh, University of Texas, Pan American; Horacio Vasquez, University of Texas, Pan American; Robert D. Wrinkle, Center for Survey Research

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“disconnected facts and formulas” as opposed to “aninterconnected web of concepts”1. There is a tendency to approach Mechanics problems byidentifying the applicable equations as opposed to recognizing underlying concepts. It is notalways students’ tendency to critically evaluate the information given and methodically analyzeit using their engineering intuition. Even when they do, often times they have preconceivedmisconceptions that hinder effective analysis. Effort must be made to refocus students so theyapproach Mechanics as “an interconnected web of concepts.” Traditional pedagogicalapproaches alone do not encourage this. As such, alternative approaches must be devised

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Kurt Paterson P.E., Michigan Technological University; Chris Swan, Tufts University; Kristine Louise Guzak, Michigan Technological University

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. Participating students were recruited from four institutions: small private, mediumpublic, small technical, and large public universities. A fifth pool was comprised of students en-gaged in Engineers Without Borders – USA at more than twenty universities across the nation.Participants were randomly assigned to one of two methodological groups: (1) online survey of150 questions (n=254), or (2) online survey plus 30 minute interview (n=120). Participation isplanned for three years, biannually; this paper shares some findings from the first year, Springand Fall 2011. The online survey collected demographic information along with a self-assessment on several topics: self-efficacy, motivation, satisfaction, retention, engineer identity,attitudes on learning

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Jianyu Dong, California State University, Los Angeles; Huiping Guo, California State University, Los Angeles

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implementation of class projects and how to betterintegrate project-based learning and inquiry-based learning into a tight teaching schedule. Basedon the assessment results and student recommendation, a plan has been devised to adjust thecurrent teaching strategy and improve the effectiveness of online CPBL.IntroductionIn Fall 2010, California State University Los Angeles received a CCLI grant from NSF toexplore a good solution to incorporate collaborative project-based and inquiry-based learning inundergraduate computer networking curriculum. The project goals include: 1) Establish a cyber-infrastructure to enable remote learning which significantly improves the learning efficiency ofstudents on a commuter campus; 2) Foster students’ hands-on design

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Ashland O. Brown P.E., University of the Pacific; Daniel D. Jensen, U.S. Air Force Academy; Joseph J. Rencis P.E., Tennessee Technological University; Kristin L. Wood, Singapore University of Technology and Design; Kyle A. Watson, University of the Pacific; Chuan-Chiang Chen, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Vladimir A. Labay, Gonzaga University; Ismail I. Orabi, University of New Haven; Firas Akasheh, Tuskegee University; John J. Wood, U.S. Air Force Academy; Rachelle Kisst Hackett, University of the Pacific; Kathy Schmidt Jackson, Pennsylvania State University; Jiancheng Liu, University of the Pacific; Paul Henry Schimpf; Alexis Pham, University of the Pacific; Krystian Zimowski, University of Texas, Austin; Kristin Taylor, University of the Pacific

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to add FE analysis to their curriculum7-9,22-24,but these plans are not occurring fast enough to meet the demand of firms competing in theglobal economy. The National Science Foundation realized the need and has supported thiswork with a "Proof of Concept-Phase I" DUE CCLI Grant Award number 0536197 and mostrecently a TUES "Type 2 Collaborative Research at Several Institutions" DUE Award numbers1023034 and 1023064, respectively. All learning modules developed in six years of work areavailable free to US engineering educational institutions onhttp://sites.google.com/site/finiteelementlearning/home.Initially, we developed FE learning modules in six engineering areas: (1) structural analysis, (2)mechanical vibrations, (3) computational fluid

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Hakan Gurocak, Washington State University, Vancouver; Ashley Ater Kranov, ABET; Rochelle Letrice Williams, ABET

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these subjects and the emphasis on mathematicalalgorithms and board-level applications, most new mechanical engineering graduates are unableto meet the industry expectations.Motion control is a sub-field of automation in which the position and/or velocity of multiple axesin a machine are controlled in a synchronized fashion. Motion control is widely used in all typesof industries including packaging, assembly, textile, paper, printing, food processing andsemiconductor manufacturing. The complex, high speed, high precision control required for themulti-axis coordinated motion is implemented using a specialized computer called the motioncontroller. The complete motion control system (Figure 1) consists of (1) a motion controller thatgenerates

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Elaine P. Scott, Seattle Pacific University; Denise Wilson, University of Washington; Rebecca A. Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato

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regards to truth in the design specifications of a computer chip.An example of a professional development “Mini” module on “Informational Interviews” isshown in Figure 1. Note that the module includes only four slides: a title slide; an orientationslide, indicating where informational interview fit within the larger scope of inter-personal skills;an ‘about’ page, explaining what “Informational Interviewing” is and why it is important; andfinally, (d) a “to do” slide, portraying what the interviewee should do before, during, and after aninformational interview.In some cases, it is beneficial for the local context to be included in the slides. In this case, ageneric slide is included for the user to fill in followed by an example of a completed

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Eric Constans, Rowan University; Jennifer Kadlowec, Rowan University; Hong Zhang, Rowan University; Bonnie Angelone, Rowan University

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Green Design Project Part 1: The Hybrid Powertrain ProjectAbstractSubjects that are separate in the curriculum, such as thermodynamics and mechanical design, areintegrated in practice, since thermal and mechanical systems must function cohesively in realmechanical systems (e.g. an air conditioner). With this in mind, we are beginning theimplementation of a novel, potentially transformative approach to integrating courseworkthrough five semesters of the core mechanical engineering curriculum.The centerpiece of this research is a long-term design/build/test project that will be developed bystudents over the course of five semesters. The project, a bench-scale hybrid powertrain, isimplemented in modules, so that parts of the

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Brian F Martensen, Minnesota State University; Deborah K. Nykanen P.E., Minnesota State University, Mankato; Marilyn C. Hart, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Rebecca A. Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato

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participant connected via a videoconferencing program such asSkype.Student FeedbackAnonymous feedback from students was solicited using an online survey. Questions includedone demographic question (year in school), 19 Likert-scale questions and 4 open endedquestions. The Likert questions and their responses are shown in Table 1. Reverse coding wasnot used in order to be consistent with past uses of the survey. The survey was voluntary so outof 31 possible students, 14 responded.The responses to Q1 – Q5 presented in Table 1 indicate the student’s feelings of being connectedto peers and faculty. Overall the student responses indicate a more secure feeling of connectionwith the S-STEM program faculty than within their individual academic programs (Q1

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Justeen Olinger; Michael Hutton; Christopher Gretsch Covington; Kathleen Meehan, Virginia Tech; Richard Lee Clark Jr., Virginia Western Community College; Branden McKagen, Virginia Tech; John Harris, Virginia Tech

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, Virginia TechMr. John Harris, Virginia Tech Page 25.875.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Lab-in-a-Box: Techniques and Technologies to Manage Large and Not soLarge Laboratory CoursesA project known as Lab-in-a-Box (LiaB) was developed in 2004 by faculty members in theVirginia Tech (VT) Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department to improve studentlearning by allowing students to make their own observations on concrete examples offundamental concepts in electrical engineering.1 LiaB is a set of hands-on exercises in whichstudents design, build, and test at home circuits using

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Steve Warren, Kansas State University; Xiongjie Dong, Kansas State University; Tim J. Sobering, Kansas State University; Jason Yao, East Carolina University

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(see Figure 1). The myDAQ platform (an NI USB-6009 upgrade) addsa ±5/±15 V power supply (0.5W), a software-controlled function generator (frequency ≤ 100kHz), a digital multimeter, and two audio I/O jacks. It hosts two analog inputs (16-bit, 200 kS/s),two analog outputs (16-bit, 200 kS/s), and 8 TTL/CMOS digital I/O lines. Drivers and VIs arebased on the NI ELVISmx software11 used with NI ELVIS II12. Available VIs include anoscilloscope, a waveform generator, a digital multimeter, a power supply, a digital I/O interface,and a frequency-domain Bode analyzer. Page 25.892.3 Figure 1. National Instruments myDAQ® personal instrumentation

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Mary R. Anderson-Rowland, Arizona State University; Armando A. Rodriguez, Arizona State University; Richard A. Hall Jr., Cochise Community College; Phil Blake McBride, Eastern Arizona College; Rakesh Pangasa, Arizona Western College; John M. Saber, Mohave Community College; Clark Vangilder, Central Arizona College; Anita Grierson, Arizona State University

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the availability ofmore scholarships to help support engineering students. However, just providing money tostudents does not ensure their success. Henceforth in this paper, the term “engineering” shallinclude both engineering and computer science.Research has shown the high school GPA and math SAT scores best predict retention andgraduation in engineering, while verbal SAT scores correlated negatively with graduation in fiveout of eight universities.1 Other research has shown that “student services focused support andacademic courses to help students improve their ability to be successful in applying engineeringconcepts early in the engineering education” can improve student success and retention.2 FourNSF grants have been leveraged, NSF S

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Christopher Papadopoulos, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez; Aidsa I. Santiago-Román, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez; Genock Portela-Gauthier, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez; Rosaurelis Marín Ramírez, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez; Paola Pacheco Roldan, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez

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”.Engineers and non-engineers alike widely characterize engineering as a discipline whose purposeis to “solve problems”, and this is often framed as “design”1. Despite movements since at leastthe 1990’s to reform engineering education to integrate design throughout the curriculum,including during the freshman year, engineering curricula remain dominated by “linear” and “topdown” models that postpone the introduction of design. In this standard model, basic math andscience (“analysis”) courses are given during the first two years, followed by application of thisknowledge to conduct basic engineering analysis during the second and third years, andculminating in engineering design (e.g., capstone design projects) during the last year2, 3. Theinherent

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Christine Ehlig-Economides, University of Houston (CoE); Sukesh K. Aghara, Prairie View A&M University; Sarma V. Pisupati, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Reza Toossi, California State University, Long Beach; Anthony R. Kovscek, Stanford University; Mehmet Ayar, Texas A&M University; Emily Binks-Cantrell, Texas A&M University; Don R. Gilman P.E., Texas A&M University; Dennie L. Smith, Texas A&M University; Timothy Allen Robinson, Pennsylvania State University; Bugrahan Yalvac, Texas A&M University

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AC 2012-3235: LIVE ENERGY: AN INITIATIVE FOR TEACHING EN-ERGY AND SUSTAINABILITY TOPICS WITH THE MOST UP-TO-DATEAND RELEVANT CONTENT.Dr. Christine Ehlig-Economides, Texas A&M UniversityDr. Sukesh K. Aghara, Prairie View A&M University Sukesh Aghara is a tenured Associate Professor at Prairie View A&M University (PV) in the Department of Chemical Engineering (nuclear), a member of the Texas A&M University System. He is the PI/Director of the $1 million per year, five-year, NSF CREST Center for Energy and Environmental Sustainability. His expertise includes radiation shielding analysis and experimental design, applications of nuclear analytical techniques, and nuclear energy and security.Dr. Sarma V

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Olufunmilola Atilola, Texas A&M University; Cheryl Osterman; Francisco Vides, Texas A&M University; Erin M. McTigue, Texas A&M University; Julie S. Linsey, Texas A&M University; Tracy Hammond, Texas A&M University

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about their steps. At the same time,none of them offer an opportunity for students to solve the problem completely by themselves;all of them provide the students with partial solutions and ask them to determine some missingvalues, force directions, or calculate the failure point. They also provide feedback whether thestudents’ answer for the missing part is correct or not. None (but Newton’s Pen[1]) evaluate thestudent’s sketch of a FBD. Some of the existing software are discussed below.The Andes physics tutoring system [2] was designed with similar goals to Mechanix. The Andesinterface mimics pen and paper homework while providing extra features like immediatefeedback. Similar to Mechanix, Andes was intended as a drop-in replacement for pen

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Michael G. Mauk, Drexel University; Richard Chiou, Drexel University; Vladimir Genis, Drexel University; M. Eric Carr, Drexel University; Danielle Tadros, Drexel University; Christopher Sikich, Sun Valley High School

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papers in the field of engineering technology education.Ms. Danielle Tadros, Drexel UniversityMr. Christopher Sikich, Sun Valley High School Christopher Sikich is in his sixth year as a high school biology teacher, fifth as a teacher at Sun Valley High School in Aston, Penn. Page 25.935.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Microfluidics in Engineering, Science, and Technology EducationAbstract We are integrating microfluidics laboratory experiments and projects into the EngineeringTechnology curriculum and high school science classes with the support of a Type 1 NSF

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Priscilla J. Hill, Mississippi State University; Yaroslav Koshka, Mississippi State University; Oliver J. Myers, Mississippi State University; Giselle Thibaudeau, Mississippi State University; Carlen Henington, Mississippi State University

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Fall 2011 semester.IntroductionNanotechnology and nanoscience are expected to have significant effects on both the nationaland global economies. It is estimated that in 2008 the value of products incorporatingnanotechnology was approximately $200 billion globally and $80 billion in the U.S., and it isestimated to reach $3 trillion globally and $1 trillion in the U.S. by 20201.Recognizing the potential impact on the region and the national economy, several MSU facultyrealized that students had limited exposure to and opportunities for learning nanotechnology.Although fundamental topics in nanoscience were included in many existing courses in biology,chemistry, engineering, and physics, there were no courses focused specifically on

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Giti Javidi, Virginia State University; Ehsan O. Sheybani, Virginia State University

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, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) disciplines for middle school students in theDigispired project. The primary goal of project was to provide learning and research opportunities to middle schoolstudents by focusing on programming and thus gaming, and the four science themes through Saturday and summerprograms for three years. Within this 36-month project, 90 low-income rural and urban students (1) learned abouttechnologies involved in game products; (2) learned about programming, computer graphics, and animation; (3)created games on four science themes – recycling, nutrition, physical exercise or activity, and substance abuse; (4)finalized their interactive game projects for distribution in local educational communities; and (5) shared